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High Cholesterol with normal blood sugar level

steph81170

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Prediabetes
Hello everyone.
Can someone please explain why, having been on a low carb. high (healthy) fat diet for the past 10 months, my blood sugar levels are now in the normal range (I had been diagnosed as being pre-diabetic) but my cholesterol is now 8!!?? Help!
 
Your "cholesterol" number of 8 is pretty meaningless.. do you have the full set of lipid numbers and was your cholesterol test a fasting one?
 
Have you lost a significant amount of weight during those ten months on Low Carb diet? I’ve lost over 5 stone in eight and a half months and my cholesterol levels have deteriorated too, but I’ve learnt that significant weight loss can cause this and it will improve again once your weight has stabilised.
 

As asked above, numbers, numbers, numbers!
No need to panic, though. A number of us are running high cholesterol with good ratios and are not worrying our health care teams. Or ourselves, for that matter.
 
Yes, I have lost weight, about half a stone, but I was only 8st. 10lbs. to start with - am now 7st. 12lbs. and have been stable for several months.
 
Resurgam said:
If you have been losing weight then your cholesterol will have risen as it is involved with moving fat around.
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OK, thanks. It seems to me that the current thinking about high Cholesterol is different to what it used to be, ie we should not be unduly worried as long as we have no other high-risk factors - what do you think?
 
LittleGreyCat said:
As asked above, numbers, numbers, numbers!
No need to panic, though. A number of us are running high cholesterol with good ratios and are not worrying our health care teams. Or ourselves, for that matter.
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Thanks, that's reassuring.
 
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steph81170 said:
OK, thanks. It seems to me that the current thinking about high Cholesterol is different to what it used to be, ie we should not be unduly worried as long as we have no other high-risk factors - what do you think?
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The "new" thinking about cholesterol is that the absolute number is irrelevant and far more important are ratios between the types that make up that number. So if we don't know what the individual numbers are it's very hard to say what is going on. Needless to say a lot of GP's are way behind the curve on this.
 
bulkbiker said:
Your "cholesterol" number of 8 is pretty meaningless.. do you have the full set of lipid numbers and was your cholesterol test a fasting one?
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It was a non-fasting test. LDL 5.1 (131mg/dl. HDL 2.4 (62mg/dl) I'm still confused. . . .
 
steph81170 said:
It was a non-fasting test. LDL 5.1 (131mg/dl. HDL 2.4 (62mg/dl) I'm still confused. . . .
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The Triglyceride/HDL ratio is I believe considered to be the most important. The LDL is usually calculated using a formula which has been shown to be incorrect when people are low carbing. Do you have your trigs number?
 
LDL 5.1 HDL 2.4 (non fasting test)
 
bulkbiker said:
The Triglyceride/HDL ratio is I believe considered to be the most important. The LDL is usually calculated using a formula which has been shown to be incorrect when people are low carbing. Do you have your trigs number?
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I have no idea what trigs number are . . .
 
If you have a full lipid panel done then one of the measured parts is your triglyceride levels.
Total cholesterol is made up of HDL LDL and Triglycerides with the LDL part being calculated.
So your results usually show Total Cholesterol, HDL, Triglycerides, LDL.
With all those numbers you can calculate the Triglyceride / HDL ratio.
https://www.docsopinion.com/2014/07/17/triglyceride-hdl-ratio/
 
OK, thank you. Need to ask GP what my Triglyceride part was (might take a few days )
 
Resurgam said:
You might be able to request a printout at the desk - I have not seen my own GP since diagnosis - he put NFA on my notes.
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Possibly slightly better than NFN?
 
Normal for norfolk
NFA - no further appointments, usually a patient that has agreed to opt out, and self diagnose and treat themselves outside the NHS system and advise, at their responsibility.
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